Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?